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My nuc came with a plastic queen cage. There is a plastic cap on the tube, what do I need to do now? When I was learning how to start this I never read anything on the plastic cages. Does it already have candy under that pink cap?

Thanks guys, there was candy in there. Guess I'm just a little nervous with this being my first time. Just need a little reassurance that what I have read is right. Now I just wait about a week and then check to see if the queen is out.

Doesn't sound like a nuc to me. Sounds like someone took a few frames of brood, threw in a queen and sold it as a nuc :evil:

In my book. A nuc should come with a laying queen and HER brood.

Yes you maybe right but I have see (some times) the queen caged for long trips in nuc. Like GA. or LA. to New England .

BEE HAPPY Jim 134 :)

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Doesn't sound like a nuc to me. Sounds like someone took a few frames of brood, threw in a queen and sold it as a nuc :evil:

In my book. A nuc should come with a laying queen and HER brood.

That's what I was thinking too. I ordered them from Holcomb garden in Hixon TN, they also have a store in Fort Oglethorpe GA. There is a GA seal of approval on the box they came in. So that tells me they came out of GA, but I don't know where at in GA. So I don't know what the deal is. I went out a few minutes ago and could see a few of them flying around the hive so I guess they are still here.

Doesn't sound like a nuc to me. Sounds like someone took a few frames of brood, threw in a queen and sold it as a nuc :evil:

And yes a have seen split sold as nuc.

BEE HAPPY Jim 134 :)

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"Tell me and I'll forget,show me and I may remember,involve me and I'll understand" Chinese Proverb

"The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways." John F. KennedyFranklin County Beekeepers Association MA. http://www.franklinmabeekeepers.org/

I am not a big nuc supplier, but when selling nucs, I like find the queen and cage her the afternoon before pickup (usually transferring frames to buyer's equipment). Makes transfer much faster and easier knowing where the queen is. She is in her nuc with her bees and we usually just release her when all frames and bees are transferred.